How survivors find connection when physical contact has been a death sentence for a decade.
By August, a variant labeled "SARS-22" has already killed 1.5 billion people. SARS-29
While the film is a work of fiction, it draws heavily on the real-life emergence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus. The real SARS outbreak of 2003 was the first major new infectious disease of the 21st century, spreading to 29 countries before being contained by aggressive public health measures. SARS-29 imagines a timeline where such containment failed repeatedly, leading to a permanent state of pandemic existence. How survivors find connection when physical contact has
The breakdown of international trade leads to localized survivalism and extreme measures by state actors. The real SARS outbreak of 2003 was the
Unlike standard medical documentaries, SARS-29 focuses on the :
The initial spread of "SARS-19" disrupts global economies and social structures.
In the year 2029, the world is unrecognizable. According to the fictional documentary SARS-29 (2020) on IMDb , a devastating pandemic has claimed the lives of over four billion people—roughly half the global population—since its emergence in 2020.